The Waste Land Facsimile Spit Temple His austere yet playful poetry

His austere yet playful poetry challenges our sense of the world

and collect their leavings: skin

Using anecdote as a method to generate a collection of poetry

” as opposed to the idea that poetry was driven by a poet’s voice and will

stopping and starting again

The Waste Land Facsimile Spit Temple His austere yet playful poetryT. S. Eliot When the New York Public Library announced in October 1968 that its Berg Collection had acquired the original manuscript of The Waste Land, one of the most puzzling mysteries of twentieth century literature was solved. The manuscript was not lost, as had been believed, but had remained among the papers of John Quinn, Eliots friend and adviser, to whom the poet had sent it in 1922. If the discovery of the manuscript was startling, its